Force & Truth (was Re: litcritter bashing...)
Carl Remick
carlremick at hotmail.com
Wed Nov 3 12:00:14 PST 1999
> >> >All you postie-bashers out there, who wrote this: "...in the sense a
> >> >mathematical truth holds good even when we are asleep and even if it
> >> >does not exist in nature"?
> >>
>[snip]
> >
> >Nope, not Russell. For me, the point of interest in the quote is the
> >notion of "truth" existing apart from our thoughts of "truth," in the
> >light of claims about the impossibility of truth claims.
> >
>
>I thought the interesting part was "even if it does not exist in nature."
And for me the interesting part was "even when we are asleep," where so many
of these philosophical musings leave me.
Carl
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